Influencing Factors of Paddy Production in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Gross Domestic Product is structured by a combination of the agriculture, industrial and service sectors in Sri Lanka. Paddy is the main growing crop of famers in agricultural sector. In literate review emphasized that there were several factors that affect the production of paddy in Sri Lankan economy such as fertilize usage and land. According to that, the researcher attempted to examine the most reasonable factor affect to paddy production in Sri Lanka. The sample of the research collected from Central Bank Annual Report in Sri Lanka according to the secondary data of paddy production, fertilize usage and land from 1987 to 2016. The research revealed that paddy production gradually increased in 2015 although it has decreased in 1996. In the analysis of the research, the researcher built two hypotheses. The null hypothesis was there is no relationship between fertilize usage, land and the paddy production. The alternative hypothesis was there is a relationship between fertilize usage, land and the paddy production. The findings of the research emphasized that there is a positive relationship between fertilize usage, land and the paddy production by accepting the alternative hypothesis under regression analysis. It means that when fertilize usage was constant if land factor increased in one unit, the paddy production also increased in 1.44 units. And also when land factor was constant if fertilize usage increased in one unit, the paddy production also increased in 1.33 units. Finally, it described that the land factor was made more influence on the paddy production